London Wallace v. City of Fresno

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LONDON WALLACE, Case No. 1:19-cv-01199-AWI-SAB

Plaintiff, ORDER RE STIPULATED PROTECTIVE

ORDER

v. (ECF No. 34) CITY OF FRESNO, et al.,

Defendants.

STIPULATION FOR ENTRY OF PROTECTIVE ORDER

19 1. GOOD CAUSE STATEMENT. 1.1. Defendants’ Contentions. Defendants contend that there is good cause and a particularized need for a 22 protective order to preserve the interests of confidentiality and privacy in peace

23 officer personnel file records and associated investigative or confidential records

24 for the following reasons.

First, Defendants contend that peace officers have a federal privilege of 26 privacy in their personnel file records: a reasonable expectation of privacy therein 27 that is underscored, specified, and arguably heightened by the Pitchess protective

28 procedure of California law. See Sanchez v. Santa Ana Police Dept., 936 F.2d 2 LEXIS 14665, *2-3, 12-13 (E.D. Cal. 2012) (concluding that “while…